Bradford County News

Does Severance Tax Gyp Locals? - by Wes Skillings - 7/2/2009 GOVERNOR'S GAS REVENUE PLAN DRAWS FIRE Nobody in these parts seems to favor taxing the drillers for extracting the huge pool of natural gas lying within the Marcellus Shale, but a lot of it has to do with where the money would go.

State police in Towanda report that marijuana plants were found on Monday afternoon near state Route 87, Rome Township in Bradford County.

Towanda merchants and community groups will hold their first-ever First Friday event from 5 to 9 p.m. on July 3. The event 'is intended to infuse community pride by offering the opportunity to come to town, have some fun, do some shopping and meet your neighbors,' according to a press release from the Bradford County Regional Arts Council.

Eight Bradford County youths sure know their way around farm machinery. They achieved certification through the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Training Program after passing a final exam at the Claverack Rural Electric Cooperative office in Wysox.

State police in Towanda said the man who fell from a balcony at O'Brien's Inn in Chemung on Saturday was taken from Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre to the Bradford County Jail on a fugitive from justice charge.

Bradford County's long agriculture heritage will be celebrated in Towanda from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., July 3. The heritage is a proud one, as area farmers and craftspeople will tell you.

Feedback, approvals, updates. A spattering of things on the agenda of the Susquehanna River Basin Commission's quarterly meeting on Thursday.

PennDOT is posting a vertical clearance restriction at the Route 220 Bridge over Patterson Boulevard in North Towanda Township, Bradford County.

Motorists in Bradford County are advised to be alert Wednesday, June 17 to a lane restriction along Route 6 westbound at Wyalusing.

The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a flash flood watch until Friday morning for Bradford County and Tioga County, Pa., and other communities in central Pennsylvania.

The lawyer for a Cornell PhD candidate accused of murdering his wife wants his client set free.

B lazej Kot entered the Bradford County Courthouse for his extradition hearing in an orange jump suit this afternoon, exactly one week after his wife, 28-year-old Caroline Coffey, was found dead in Taughannock State Park, in Ithaca.

MONTOURSVILLE, Pa. - Athens Township Police Sgt. James Shaw is the winner of PennDOT's Aggressive Driving Enforcement & Education Award in Bradford County.

A lawyer for a Town of Ithaca man charged with the murder of his wife asked a Pennsylvania judge for his client's immediate release claiming the arrest on fugitive charges was unlawful.

HAPPIER TIMES: Blazej Kot and Caroline Coffey on their wedding day. New Zealander Blazej Kot is due to face an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania tomorrow, as police seek his removal to New York State for trial over the alleged murder of his wife.

The man charged with the suspected murder of Cornell researcher Caroline M. Coffey last week has been released from hospital and is being held in a Pennsylvania jail awaiting possible extradition.

WAVERLYa ' A Bradford County man has been charged with using a baseball bat to attack a group of people.

Athens Township police announced the arrests of two Elmira men and a girl on Monday after they said the men sold crack cocaine to an undercover Bradford County Drug Task Force officer in the parking lot of an unidentified Elmira Street restaurant.

Family members and friends gathered at the Towanda Gun Club on May 18 to recognize the winners of the Bradford County Conservation District's 2009 Conservation Poster Contest.

B.F. Mahoney, left, owner of the company that built the Spirit of St. Louis, is pictured with the plane's pilot Charles Lindbergh.